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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 18</span><span class="fp-text">LE PAON SE PLAINT DE SA VOIX À JUNON</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XVIII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">PAVO AD JUNONEM DE VOCE SUA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Indigné de n'avoir pas eu en partage la voix du rossignol,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le Paon vint trouver Junon.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Ce chant harmonieux, dit-il, plaît à tout le monde,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tandis que ma voix ne fait qu'exciter le rire.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La déesse lui répondit pour le consoler&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Tu l'emportes par la beauté, par ton port majestueux&nbsp;!</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ton cou brille des plus vives couleurs de l'émeraude,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et tu déploies une queue étincelante de l'éclat de mille pierreries.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;A quoi me sert une beauté muette, si je suis le dernier par la voix&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;Le Destin, reprit Junon, a assigné la part de chacun&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">toi, tu as reçu la beauté ; l'aigle, le courage ; le rossignol, le chant ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le corbeau, le don de prédire ; la corneille, celui des sinistres présages ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et cependant chacun est content de son lot.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Pavo ad Junonem venit, indigne ferens</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">cantus luscinii quod sibi non tribuerit ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">illum esse cunctis auribus ammirabilem,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">se derideri simul ac vocem miserit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc consolandi <span class="fp-correction" title="gracia  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">gratia</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="gratia  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">gracia</span></span> dixit dea&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Sed forma vincis, vincis magnitudine ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nitor smaragdi collo <span class="fp-correction" title="prefulget  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">praefulget</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="praefulget  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">prefulget</span></span> tuo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pictisque plumis gemmeam caudam explicas.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Quo mihi, inquit, mutam speciem, si vincor sono&nbsp;?&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">—&nbsp;Fatorum arbitrio partes sunt vobis datae ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">tibi forma, vires aquilae, luscinio <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n109/mode/1up">p.46</a>]</span> melos ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">augurium corvo, <span class="fp-correction" title="leva  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">laeva</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="laeva  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">leva</span></span> cornici homina ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">omnesque propriis sunt contentae vocibus.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Gardez vous d'envier les biens que vous n'avez pas ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">votre espoir déçu ne vous laisserait que des regrets.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Noli adfectare quod tibi non est datum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">delusa ne spes ad querelam recidat.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-arbres-sous-la-tutelle-des-dieux.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Paon_se_plaignant_%C3%A0_Junon">Le Paon se plaignant à Junon</a></div>
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